Sinead O'Hart

Sin�ad O'Hart normally spends her time writing stories for children and young people, but occasionally she lets her dark side out with a twisty story for grown-ups. She likes medieval stuff, books, and tea, and blogs about reading and writing at http://sjohart.wordpress.com. A longlisted author in the 2013 Irish Writers' Centre Novel Fair competition with her Young Adult novel 'Tider', she's currently at work on a trilogy for children. Her work can be found in 'The Bohemyth', �Number Eleven Magazine�, 'Synaesthesia Magazine,' 'wordlegs', and 'The Looking Glass Magazine'. Thoughts on the writing of 'One': The ideas of overpopulation and pressure on dwindling resources play on my mind a lot, and I've written several short stories, including this one, about that topic. I enjoyed writing 'One' from the point of view of the child who can't imagine her own doom until it's too late; I feel there's a deep metaphor in there, somewhere...